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Poppin’ Up with PopSocket
After weeks of researching the popular brand PopSocket and their talented VP of Design, Merchandising & Brand Partnerships, Emily Siegel, we were ready to interview her about the success story that is transforming technology accessories. ...
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Putting Knowledge into Action: Cotton Capsule Collections
The objective of LIM’s Fabric for Fashion course is to teach students about the variety of fibers and fabric structures and help them make the connection between textiles and their end use in apparel and accessories.
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Sustainability, Sneakers, and the Future of Fashion: A Class Project with AVRIO
AVRIO Footwear, founded by John Matthews in 2018, is a sustainable and transparent athletic footwear brand that uses algae and other organic components in the production and development of their shoes. John and his team created the AVRIO brand to ...
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Shoes and the Environment: Learning with AVRIO Footwear
Are you aware that Americans throw out 300 million pairs of shoes every year? And those shoes take 30-40 years to decompose?
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Sometimes It’s More About the Volumes Sold Than the Number of Votes
This article is part of a series of interviews conducted by LIM students with winners of the Accessories Council's 2020 Design Excellence Awards (DEA). Students are enrolled in Fashion Merchandising Professor Andrea Kennedy's Honors Introduction ...
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Sustainable People: Free People and LIM College
In just one semester at LIM College, four Sustainability minor students and I had the opportunity to work on an industry project with Free People.
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The “Sweet Life” of Dr. Scholl’s
This article is part of a series of interviews conducted by LIM students with winners of the Accessories Council's 2020 Design Excellence Awards (DEA). Students are enrolled in Fashion Merchandising Professor Andrea Kennedy's Honors Introduction ...
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9 Qs With Award Winner Russell Pagliughi from Marina B
This article is part of a series of interviews conducted by LIM students with winners of the Accessories Council's 2020 Design Excellence Awards (DEA). Students are enrolled in Fashion Merchandising Professor Andrea Kennedy's Honors Introduction ...
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Free People (+Plants): A Sustainability Course Project
This semester, I had the pleasure of being in Professor Andrea Kennedy’s Applied Sustainable Practices course. For a class project, my partner Arianna Porcelli and I were given the opportunity to create and propose a new sustainability initiative ...